A 19-year-old Jersey City man charged with gang criminality is being held in lieu of $250,000 cash-only bail based on allegations he drove fellow Bloods street gang members to a retaliatory shooting, a criminal complaint says.

Malcolm Steele, of Garfield Avenue, made his first court appearance yesterday on charges stemming from a shooting in front of Snyder High School on Aug. 25 at 11:11 p.m., officials said.

He is also charged with hindering apprehension and weapons offenses related to a handgun, the complaint says.

Also charged in the incident is Eric Thompson, 18, of Boyd Avenue, who was the alleged trigger man and is charged with five counts of aggravated assault, as well as gang criminality, conspiracy and weapons offenses, a report says.

Officials said a 17-year-old boy is also charged in the incident, and the police complaint says all three are members of the Bloods, Sex, Money Murder set. The boy is additionally charged with stalking, a report says.

About 90 minutes before the shooting outside Snyder High, two groups got into a confrontation on Martin Luther King Drive near Virginia Avenue and gunfire erupted, wounding one person, a report says. Police witnessed the shooting and arrested several people, including the victim, and recovered guns, officials said.

Police said they suspect those charged in the shooting outside Snyder may have been friends with the victim of the first shooting. They apparently set upon a totally unrelated group of five people walking a 16-year-old boy home, officials said.

The 17-year-old boy followed the group on a bicycle while communicating to others on a cellphone and later Thompson got out of the car, driven by Steele, and approached the group at Snyder, a report says.

Police say Thompson pointed a gun at the head of a 19-year-old man and asked him if he knew the victim of the first shooting before pulling the trigger, officials said. The gun did not fire, but Thompson apparently turned off the safety and then fired five rounds at the group, wounding one person in the thigh, a report said.

South District detectives recovered security video that captured the Snyder shooting, leading to the arrest of Thompson and the juvenile last week, officials said. Steele was arrested Thursday on his 19th birthday, Police Lt. Edgar Martinez said.

“What the detectives did in this case was an outstanding job,” Jersey City Police Chief Tom Comey said yesterday. “They were able to make a nexus between the commission of the crime and the gang activity it was related to. They should be commended.”